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CHAR-L s yfr o L1; NER, .J R.,1o r N EW `Y OBK, -nf, Y, n 12mm Patent No. 86,606, daad February 2,1869.'

ToBAcco-Box spontaneously, lthe box being intended particularly for To all it'm/y conce/m: Beit known that '1, CHARLES TOLLNER, J r., of the city, county, and Statel of New York, have invented a new and improved Tobacco-Box; and I do hereby d eclare the following to be a full, clear, and exact descripl cular flange', which forms the' 'upper' part'of the body oi the box, and extends from the apertureA that is opened and closed by the lid, down to the vlower part of the said body, in such a manner that said flange overlaps the tobacco contained in the box, and prevents it Vfrom falling out when the lid is opened.

The lid'closes down bya snap, and it is so arranged that it opens by a pressure on the sides of the box. v ,A represents a tobacco-box, the body of which is composed of two parts, a b, which are united by a lapjoint, c, as shown in fig. v1 of the drawing.

The upper part, b,fo1ms a circular flange, which extends from the perture, d,down to the lower part, a, andwhich over aps the tobacco contained in the box, sothat, when the aperture d is left-open, said tobacco is partially protected, and prevented from dropping out ated under the aperture d,w`ill' beretained, and. prevented from dropping out, if the boris turned upside shuts down by a snap, e, for`med byva lip, turned up at cut chewing or smoking-tobacco, the filaments or par ticles of which interweave with and adhere to eac. A other, so that, by retaining that portion ofthe tbacco situated under ange b, the'remaining portion, situdown While said aperture 'is open.Y A The aperture d is closed bya hinged lid, B, which the inner circumference of ange b. By a slight pressure on the sides of the bX, the snap e recedes from the hinge of thelid, andsaid lid opens; My box is made in theform of a flattened spheroid, so that it can be conveniently carried in the pocket. Lt is cheap, durable, and very convenient in its opera'- tion.

Having thus described my invention, What I claim as new, anddesire to secure by Letters Patent, isr l The tobacco-box, constructed of the struckfup bottom'A and the struck-up overlapping ange b, which two parts form the body of the box, having the-opening covered by the lid within the joint c, which connects them, all as herein described, as a new article of manufacture.

CHARLES TOLLNER, JR. Witnesses:

W. HAUFF, .v

E. F. KASTENHUBER. 

